Take any episode of Mission: Impossible, TV or film, and you can break it down into 4 parts: 1) the debrief, 2) the assignments, 3) the turn and 4) the objective. For most other shows, having a repetitive formula such as this would come off as rote or predictable. The reason why it works for…

I just realized what my first genuine geek moment was, that moment where most other people look at you a bit differently because your passion over something considered trivial by 99 percent of the population. I was 15 and I had just seen the first Mission: Impossible film. I was torn by the film, on…